PROVIDENCE, R.I.—The Nydam family, Richard, Barbara, and Ellie, attended a matinee performance of Shen Yun Performing Arts in the William Saroyan Theater on Jan. 28, 2023, and came away from the performance with love in their hearts for the music and dance company’s performers.
Barbara said the dances were wonderful, especially “the smiles on everyone’s faces. It’s not just the dancing and the costumes. It’s the meaning behind all of them [the dances]: What they’re trying to express about China.”
She especially enjoyed “the historic type stories from China. I think those are really important.”
New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts was founded in 2006 by a group of leading Chinese artists who had fled the persecution of China’s ruling communist party. Following the regime’s violent takeover of China in 1949, the country’s traditional culture underwent a period of mass destruction….